Nice to be Home

I'm anxious to get back to Montreal to see Papa, it's different visiting without the kids and I was able to have such a nice visit with him and with Granny Gwen while I was there.

However, it was really nice to come home, too. I was so warmly greeted by the kids and Jason and was treated to a "Mother's Day Tea" in Jack's classroom today. Dad took Henry to the park so I could have one-on-one time with Jack (and he could have one-on-one time with Henry).

The class had also rehearsed some songs which they sang to us from the stage in the school gym. Then they had a fashion show of sorts...each kid had created a costume (out of paper) that was to represent something they wanted to do better. There were ballerina costumes and singer costumes. Jack was dressed as "Dash" from The Incredibles to help him run faster! He was also chosen to introduce the song they sang.

I'm really impressed (not just with my own kids, but with the kids at the school in general) at how brave and confident they are. I remember being pretty shy at that age.

Yesterday Hannah and a few of her friends tried out for the school talent show and got up on that stage to perform some kind of "skipette" routine. For those of you born in the 70's, you may be more familiar with the term "lemon twister". It's a thing that loops around your foot with a plastic lemon or some more modern plastic shape at the end of a rope and you jump over it with your other foot while swinging it around ...anyway, it was a pretty odd choice for a talent show but they hopped on that stage with all the confidence in the world.

Mind you, what were we thinking, Jennifer, when we danced to "Tiny Bubbles" with garbage bag grass skirts in our talent show?

My point is, it's nice to be home and back to the madness that is my life!